kangaroo island wildlife researcher pat hodgins remembers the fear which gripped him in the days which followed. it was pretty clear to us that the impacts for threatened species on the island was going to be pretty massive. if you see just the fire ripping through the habitat and taking everything away, it's like a massive habitat loss, just like that, the click of a heartbeat, really. the ki dunnart is pretty distinctive. it runs along here, in front of this camera trap, and the camera will detect the movement and then take a series of photos. and this was what worried him the most. the fate of the endangered kangaroo island dunnart, a tiny marsupial. when you have species like the kangaroo island dunnart, that's only found here, there are none on mainland australia, none on any other islands, none in captivity, and they only live